The Cishets are at it again, this time with Tannerite

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

It's because it can't just be about TELLING people that your infant has a weiner or a clamshell. It's become a cishet pissing contest to get a bigger and better instagram image of how EMPHATICALLY you declared it to the world, and how well you proved you have more money and gendernormative convictions than sense.

... Are gender reveal parties political?

Kind of, yeah? I mean, they're motivated by gender politics, and probably by suburban neighbor rivalries. If it was just a cynical attempt to score more presents on top of the baby shower, then they wouldn't really be launching small aircraft or burning heaps of fertilizer.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

It's because it can't just be about TELLING people that your infant has a weiner or a clamshell. It's become a cishet pissing contest to get a bigger and better instagram image of how EMPHATICALLY you declared it to the world, and how well you proved you have more money and gendernormative convictions than sense.

... Are gender reveal parties political?

Kind of, yeah? I mean, they're motivated by gender politics, and probably by suburban neighbor rivalries. If it was just a cynical attempt to score more presents on top of the baby shower, then they wouldn't really be launching small aircraft or burning heaps of fertilizer.

Well somebody should put a stop to this.

[McAvoy]

I felt these gender reveal parties falls into the same category of giving kids oddball names or oddball spelling.

It's not really about the child, it's all about 'look at me'.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Mikaayehla (pronounced "Michael")

[McAvoy]

Airica. Or Erica. That's the latest one I have found. Other one that amuses me is Graig or Greg or Craig but with a G.

Oh and these kids with the oddball spelling of the name? Yeah they hate it and spell it the normal way.

[Mickey_Rat15]

Gender reveal parties seem like something from the LGBT

I...
I what? I beg your McFucking pardon? Did you even READ the article? Have you turned on a news channel or browsed a news page in the past sixteen months?

No, Gender Reveal Parties are NOT an "LGBT" thing, you considerably vexing gentleman. Gender reveal parties, as I made pretty clear with the Original Post of This Thread, are a Cisgender Heterosexual thing. That is why I titled this thread "The CisHets are at it again".

I need to go mix some stronger drinks. I haven't been this incredulous and frustrated since I blocked DragonBallFan.

I think he was confusing it with a 'coming out' type thing and not the dumber version of a baby shower. Still, though, at least read the full headline, Captain.

I am not sure it is fair to blame Captain Crimson for not being familiar with Gender Studies duckspeak.

Have you been living under a rock? Because both cis and het are fairly mainstream terms.

It is the jargon of an eccentric idealogy. The general public does not talk like that.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Maybe your opinions and your social circle aren't interchangeable with "the general public".

[McAvoy]

Gender reveal parties seem like something from the LGBT

I...
I what? I beg your McFucking pardon? Did you even READ the article? Have you turned on a news channel or browsed a news page in the past sixteen months?

No, Gender Reveal Parties are NOT an "LGBT" thing, you considerably vexing gentleman. Gender reveal parties, as I made pretty clear with the Original Post of This Thread, are a Cisgender Heterosexual thing. That is why I titled this thread "The CisHets are at it again".

I need to go mix some stronger drinks. I haven't been this incredulous and frustrated since I blocked DragonBallFan.

I think he was confusing it with a 'coming out' type thing and not the dumber version of a baby shower. Still, though, at least read the full headline, Captain.

I am not sure it is fair to blame Captain Crimson for not being familiar with Gender Studies duckspeak.

Have you been living under a rock? Because both cis and het are fairly mainstream terms.

It is the jargon of an eccentric idealogy. The general public does not talk like that.

This would be true in public. I have yet to hear anyone use cis vocally. But I have seen it used alot in articles usually when involving needing a descriptor.